Sentences with phrase «premature deaths every year»

According to the DoH, smoking is the biggest preventable cause of death in England, accounting for more than 80,000 premature deaths each year and tobacco use is one of the most significant public health challenges.

«It's outrageous that London is choking on air so dirty it's illegal - air pollution contributes to thousands of premature deaths every year in the capital, particularly affecting some of its most disadvantaged people.

Research by Dr Robin Purshouse of Sheffield University for the Scottish government suggests a minimum price on every unit of alcohol of 40p would cut 1,000 premature deaths a year.

Following a visit last month, the UN's Special Rapporteur on human rights and hazardous substances said air pollution «plagues» the UK, causing an estimated 30,000 - 40,000 premature deaths a year.

«Using computer modeling he developed over 20 years, Jacobson has found that carbonaceous fuel soot emissions (which lead to respiratory illness, heart disease and asthma) have resulted in 1.5 million premature deaths each year, mostly in the developing world where wood and animal dung are used for cooking.

Arguments have shown that if we could take our average intake of salt from 3300 - 4000 to 2000 mg per day, we could save around 150,000 lives from a premature death each year (in America alone).

Deficiency in this essential fat can cause or contribute to very serious health problems, both mental and physical, and may be a significant underlying factor of up to 96,000 premature deaths each year.

Omega - 3 deficiency can cause or contribute to very serious health problems, both mental and physical, and may be a significant underlying factor of up to 96,000 premature deaths each year.

Omega - 3 deficiency can cause or contribute to serious health problems, both mental and physical, and may be a significant underlying factor of up to 96,000 premature deaths each year.

Research has found that being over weight is responsible for 216,000 premature deaths each year and the over consumption of processed foods are a major contributor to the obesity epidemic in the US.

Harvard nutritionist Walter Willett blames trans fats for at least 30,000 premature deaths a year, calling their introduction in the 1940s the «biggest food - processing disaster in U.S. history.»

Half a million premature deaths a year are reported in Europe due to air pollution and diesel cars are a major contributor.

This recent New England Journal of Medicine paper, «Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and of Taxing Tobacco,» provides a chilling view of the expanding wave of death and disease resulting from this trade, with 5 million premature deaths a year even now and twice that rate forecast within a few decades.

Visceral fear is not widely aroused by, for example, the daily emissions from coal burning, although, as a National Academy of Sciences study found, this causes 10,000 premature deaths a year among Americans.

Air pollution from Europe's 300 largest coal power stations causes 22,300 premature deaths a year and costs companies and governments billions of pounds in disease treatment and lost working days, says a major study of the health impacts of burning coal to generate electricity.

«In fact, closing just a single plant can prevent 146 asthma attacks, 47 heart attacks, and 29 premature deaths a year, according to the Clean Air Task Force... Coal is still killing 7,500 people annually,» he wrote.

According to the Environmental Integrity Project, the plant causes about 1,000 asthma attacks and 57 to 100 premature deaths each year.

At the same time, Prime Minister Narenda Modi and his ministers need to urgently tackle an air pollution crisis that contributes to over a million premature deaths every year.

- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution - Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants - Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known Clean air is vital for good health.

The price of coal would increase dramatically if it reflected the cost borne by society from the pollution that causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year in coal - dependent countries.

-- Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution — Energy production and use are by far the largest man - made sources of air pollutants — Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known

Particulate matter is singlehandedly responsible for up to 30,000 premature deaths each year.

Those solid household fuels produce health - damaging indoor pollution that contributes to about four million premature deaths a year, most of them women and children.

According to Gray's study, while the growth of coal consumption has slowed, 570 new coal - fired plants are either being built or are planned, and if they go ahead would be responsible for a further 32,000 premature deaths each year.

Even worse, this report, authored by Boston University School of Public Health professor, Dr. Jonathan Levy, states that the Meramec power plant causes upwards of 1,000 asthma attacks and 57 to 110 premature deaths each year.

These pollutants get into the air and cause a lot of problems, including thousands of premature deaths every year.

Cleaning up soot pollution could prevent between 700,000 and 4.7 million premature deaths each year, according to the international team of researchers, while capturing methane from coal mines, landfills, and agricultural waste can yield natural gas, a less carbon intensive and increasingly valuable fuel.

They would cut emissions by 91 percent and save 17,000 people from premature death each year, according to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson.

Suppose someone offered you an electricity fuel that would cause tens of thousands of premature deaths every year and add hundreds of billions of dollars in extra health care costs?

Increased air pollution is the major cause of thousands of premature deaths every year as well as related health problems for tens of thousands of others.

The top 300 coal plants cumulative cause an estimate 22,300 premature deaths a year, and the 50 new plants would cause an additional 2,700 premature deaths.

n ships and reduce harmful pollutants by 80 percent or more by 2030, preventing between 13,000 and 33,000 premature deaths each year.

According to the Lancet, 9 million premature deaths each year are attributed to air pollution.

In China, the report says, fossil fuels impose $ 1,790 bn in health costs from air pollution, more than 18 times what the nation pays to oil, gas and coal producers, helping to fuel a public health crisis that is already causing 1.6 million premature deaths every year.

The previously mentioned 900,000 premature deaths every year leave many families emotionally drained and with 3 in 10 American households having no life insurance coverage whatsoever, these deaths leave many families financially drained as well.

Not exact matches

One 20 - year study of workplace environments found that those cultures that lacked supportive relationships increased the risk of mortality by 240 percent, which makes sense when you consider that chronic stress is a leading contributor to premature death.

The EPA estimated that the standards would help avoid up to 2,000 premature deaths per year when fully in place.

Strategies to live more safely in such an environment abound, and no wonder: The journal Nature recently found that air pollution leads to the premature death of three million people every year, mainly in Asia.

For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

It is premature to sing carols at the crib when Good Friday is yet to come; it is premature to light birthday candles when death is one year closer; it is premature to kill the fatted calf when there is no guarantee the prodigal will not leave again.

I n 1954, four years after George Orwell's premature death from tuberculosis, his friend Christopher Hollis recalled: «One of the most interesting and deepest of Orwell's beliefs was his belief in the profound evil of contraception.»

Recently, two members were tried and sentenced 6 years each in jail for the death of their premature son.

It follows years of successful campaigning for plain packaging on tobacco, which has already been implemented in several markets as governments try to reduce the number of «premature deaths» caused by smoking.

Bobby's premature death from cancer is as much an indelible part of our history as the memories of Mooro's majestic performances in the claret and blue for 16 glorious years.

His managerial prowess propelled Arsenal to many years of success, even after his premature death in 1934.

having other family members with a «history of premature death (sudden or otherwise), or significant disability from cardiovascular disease in close relative (s) younger than 50 years old or specific knowledge of the occurrence of certain conditions (eg, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, Marfan syndrome, or clinically important arrhythmias)».

A total of 80 deaths due to GBS in premature and full term newborns occur per year among the 4 million low and high risk births in the US or 1/50, 000.

We found a nonsignificant difference in number of deaths before age 70 years under current breastfeeding rates (4,396 additional premature deaths, 95 % CI — 810 — 7,918).

We defined «premature death» as death at age 69 years or younger, because the median lifespan of a 20 - year - old woman in the United States is 81.2 years.32 We chose this age as a conservative measure of premature death, which reflects a loss of over 10 years from the average life expectancy of a woman in the United States.

We modeled cases of breast cancer, premenopausal ovarian cancer, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and myocardial infarction considering direct costs, indirect costs, and cost of premature death (before age 70 years) expressed in 2011 dollars.